What does Pliny say about the "problem" of Christianity?  How much does he seem to know about Christianity?  What does the Emperor advise him about handling Christians in the future  one page answer the question on above by reading the article   PlinyandTrajan1.doc

Guns, Germs, and Steel as your foundation, write in 2 to 3 pages entitled, “There’s No Idea Like One Whose Time Has Come.” Apply Diamond’s theory to recent inventions that have transformed our world today. Develop a concise thesis statement and substantiate each point with facts, examples, and quotes (chapter 13)

Write a review of a non-fiction book of your choosing on East Asia from the beginning to the seventeenth century. Your review should do the following: 1) briefly describe the topic of the book 2) identify the book’s thesis and argument 3) briefly describe the book’s sources (to be found in the footnotes and bibliography) […]

  Using either stories: Frederick Douglass, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"  https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/nations-story-%E2%80%9Cwhat-slave-fourth-july%E2%80%9D                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      or Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen"  https://revolution.chnm.org/d/293 evaluate  how notions of citizenship during era of Atlantic Revolutions were  framed as exclusionary and limited by the author. Who was excluded? Why? […]

Write a review of a non-fiction book of your choosing on East Asia from the beginning to the seventeenth century. Your review should do the following: 1) briefly describe the topic of the book 2) identify the book’s thesis and argument 3) briefly describe the book’s sources (to be found in the footnotes and bibliography) […]

 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11s7r_AGUhLYfTmVbHzEi5ne0_OqX2yG5BYiswkXK2zI/edit?usp=sharing   You can select things from a text, culture, or area of the world from the link above This cannot be a solely written assignment. You can create a collage, a presentation,or a vlog for this assignment..    You will choose a topic and format that you are interested in learning more about. This allows […]

  https://wendybelcher.com/african-literature/african-arts-literature/ http://women.dartmouth.org/s/1353/images/gid294/editor_documents/events/new_york_book_club/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-the-thing-around-your.pdf?gid=294&pgid=61&sessionid=10854f2d-6684-4bae-ab00-145f0043d63b&cc=1 (Read "Cell One") https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/565351/things-fall-apart-by-chinua-achebe/9780385667838/excerpt  Pick one and read.  write a review of what you read. You can put your own spin on it by making your review as creative as possible but it should answer the following questions: what you read(title and author), what it was about, discuss the major characters, and […]

 select 2 or 3 sections in Whitman's epic "Song of Myself" to analyze. How does Whitman use poetic devices listed below to challenge his readers and create a new direction in poetry? What was unique about his poetic style and subject matter? How does his experimentation assist his new style of poetics?

   Directions: in this activity, students will consider the present-day relevance of history.  Students will choose an article from the list provided by your instructor inside this folder depicting a current event.  In several paragraphs (2-3), students will summarize (in their OWN words), the main points from their article selection, and then analyze and explain […]

In American politics, people often compare their enemies to Hitler or to the Nazis. Many Democrats compared Trump to a "fascist," and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez famously compared child detention facilities to "concentration camps." (Republicans claimed this was an unfair comparison and disrespectful to the real victims of the Holocaust.) On the other hand, Republicans often […]